Official Swarthmore Decisions: Class of 2012

yayitsmargaret
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:39:52 +0000

Accepted

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 750V 730W 700M
[]SAT II: 770 Math II; 680 Math I, Spanish, and World History; 690 Literature.
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: ~3.8. I honestly don’t remember.
[]Rank: N/A
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APs: 4 US History; 5 World History, English Language
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: My Why Swarthmore? was half a page long, but turned out to be well-written and very truthful.
[]Teacher Recs: Pre-Calc and APUSH teacher. I assume they were good.
[]Counselor Rec: I assume it was good.
[]Supplementary Material: “Activity Resume”-- basically, I made a chart of all my extra-curricular instead of using the one on the Common App.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Applied ED; had a great interview.[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Ohio
[]High School Type: Private (Independent) All-Girls Prep
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: Constantly changing. (But my sex is female. There’s a difference.)
[]Applied for Financial Aid: No. [/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: 5 years of Tae Kwon Do, job at Tae Kwon Do, intense academic summer programs all through high school, GSA.
[]Awards: I don’t even remember if I put anything under awards.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Seriously, they’re just looking for smart people that can be themselves.[/ul]